#55

I love beach and sunshine the best! When it comes to summer time, the place I always want to go is the beach. However, I live in Shanghai and there is no beach around which makes summer a little bit boring to me. If I have time during summer holiday, I will choose to go to some places that have beaches. What I love beach the most is the sound of waves and the smell of the ocean. I could just fall asleep by listening to the sound of waves. As my Dad used to work in Brazil for quite a long time, he always like to show me many pretty pictures about the beach, which makes me so jealous that I was dying to go there. What’s more, I like watching people surfing. In my opinion, surfing is one of the sports that I think the coolest sport. I always want to learn how to surf because I will go to the beach and surf if I am under too much pressure. Like other sports, surfing could make me feel really relaxed and what’s more, surfing could also give you a lot of energy to do other things. So overall, I would say that beach and ocean is my favorite place to go and could inspire me the most. The sound of the wave and ocean can always make me relaxed and forget all the troublesome business. It could bring me to get close to the nature and let me listen to the sound of this fascinating world.

#54

Well, the first boy that I had crush on is in my kindergarten. He is a really cute boy. His Dad is from German and his mom is from Shanghai, China. He is one of the boys that are very popular in the kindergarten because he looks so different from other kids. He has light brown color hair and very big brown eyes, what’s more, he likes playing soccer and he is really good at it. Not only a lot of girls like him, but also many teachers adore him. He could speak Germany and he is learning Chinese at that time, so he was sent to the normal kindergarten instead of those International kindergartens. When he is speaking Germany, I always feel so surprised and cannot believe how well he could speak another language. I think he is a very cool and cute kid. We have been in the same kindergarten for almost two years, we are really good friends and we play around together a lot. However, he went to another kindergarten because his family moved to Hong Kong. When I found out he was moving, I was really sad and thought we were never going to see each other again. Anyhow, he is the first boy that I had crush on, even though we did not spend a lot of time together in the kindergarten, I still think he as my first really good friend and I am hoping that everything is going well with him all the time.

#53 pet peeve

I don’t know if it is the weather is driving me crazy or not, I am always in a bad mood during the winter quarter. I just feel like the weather is way too cold than I expected and spring will take forever to come. So a pet peeve that I have is when the weather is being too cold.

 I love summer time the most, which is kind of weird for most people will become really annoyed by the hot weather. I hate winter time because I have to dress like a bear with tons of clothes on and I am always cold no matter how the weather is. The wind outside sometimes annoys me as well. Every time I go outside, I feel like the wind is chilling to the bone no matter how much I wear and I seem to be slapped really hard by the strong wind. What’s more, when it is getting really cold, it started to snow and the road is getting really bad. Especially, during the time the snow is melting, the road will become really disgusting, nasty and slippery. I always get my boots and shoes dirty. The snow on the boots is hard to get off which completely ruins the shoes.

Well, I have to say that, I may not so used to the cold weather that much so that I have some negative opinions toward winter. I might end up liking the weather when I finished my four year college here.

#52 trip

I love travelling, seeing different places and learning different cultures. I have been to lot of famous places like Vegas, Niagara Falls, DC, New York, etc. They give me different feelings of America but they are all very fascinating.  However, the most unforgettable trip I have taken is the cruise trip around China. It was a summer in 2009, my host family was trying to visit me in China and they decided to go on the cruise. Since I have never gone on the cruise trip before, I was so excited to go with them even though it was a trip to China.

We first stayed in a five-star hotel in Shanghai which has 88 floors and the view of the room was great. After spending two days in Shanghai, we flew to Wuhan and went on the boat. The boat was not really big; however, it was a quite cute and cozy four-floor ship. There were quite a few shopping areas to go and a theater room, which was really nice. During the six days in the boat, we passed by a lot of cities and had a great time. What’s more exciting, on the third day of the cruise, we saw thewhole solar eclipse on the boat, which could not be seen until 2035. After the cruise, we flew to our destiny Beijing and enjoyed a fantastic Beijing Opera show.

I have to say that it was the most exciting and unforgettable trip I have ever taken. I got to a lot of places that I didn’t have a chance to see before, and I was also lucky enough to see the whole solar eclipse on the boat.

#51 famous person

So the famous person that I wish I could become is Jiacheng Li, for anyone who does not know him, I will give a brief introduction about him. He is considered to be the richest person in East Asia and the fourteenth richest person in the world with about US$21.3 billion. He owed several companies and had made billions and billions of money. A Harvard Business School article summarizes Li's career in the following way:

From his humble beginnings in China as a teacher’s son, a refugee, and later as a salesman, Li provides a lesson in integrity and adaptability. Through hard work, and a reputation for remaining true to his internal moral compass, he was able to build a business empire that includes: banking, construction, real estate, plastics, cellular phones, satellite television, cement production, retail outlets (pharmacies and supermarkets), hotels, domestic transportation (sky train), airports, electric power, steel production, ports, and shipping.

I wish I were him because he is very successful in the business world and he is the head of many companies that owns a large property. I admire him and even regard him as my role model not only because he is the richest person in China, but he also has a really strong will power and smart brain. His success depends on his daring actions and his unique opinion. I wish I could be as smart as he is when dealing with business problems. Sometimes the most difficult part is when someone did not know the opportunity is coming. 

#50 gift

I remembered when I was an exchange student in America in 2008, I had a lot of fun with my host family and I was kind of sad to go home in June. Since my birthday is in July and I came to America in August, I could not spend my birthday in America, which is kind of depressing.  However, to my surprise, on a normal Sunday morning, about three days before I went back to China, I woke up in the morning and went downstairs to have breakfast, to my surprise, downstairs was decorated with many colorful balloons and small cute decorations. I was not sure what was going on at that moment because I did not expect they would celebrate my birthday at all. By the time I went to the dining room, I saw a box which had a card on it said “to Mengtian”. I opened it up and there were two cute dresses in it. I could not believe my mom bought them after we went shopping because I said I fell in love with those dresses first time I saw them, but they are way too expensive. When I got the gift, I was screaming and could feel tears coming out of my eyes. What’s more, all my friends showed up and celebrated my birthday with me. I had a really happy and unforgettable birthday in America. This was the best day ever, the best surprising birthday party and best gift I have ever gotten.

#49 babysitting

I never had a very formal job like working in the restaurant or shopping malls. My first and only job is babysitting. It surprises me that almost everybody in high school has a job like working for shopping malls, restaurants, grocery markets, etc. At that time, I have never had a job before and was dying to have a job and earn some money. So my mom offered me a job as a babysitter for one of our neighbors. They have two kids, Bella and Morgan. Bella is 2 years old and Morgan is 6 years old. The parents have a party to go and need someone to babysit their children. So I got to their house around 6 pm and got familiar with the house a little bit. I used to think babysitting as a quite easy job. Playing with kids and giving them food are what I think of the job. However, I was completely wrong. I did not expect changing Bella’s diapers at all until she was crying and showing me the diaper bag. What’s more, after giving the kids food, I thought I could finally lie down on the couch and relax. No, the kids are way more hyper than I thought. They ran from upstairs to downstairs, they took out all their toys and threw them all over the place…. I kept cleaning up and making sure that everything is ok. Finally, around midnight, their parents got back and I was exhausted! I have to admit that babysitting is a really tough job, it requires way more than you think. I am not sure if I would take this kind of job again. 

#48 family member

My cousin is my best friend. We are very close to each other. She has been living with my family for four years since she started working in Shanghai after she graduated from college. Maybe because of her work as a public relations manager, she loves fashion, she goes shopping when she does not need to work, and she reads fashion magazines and learns what the latest fashion trend is. She is always the glamorous one in her company. On the contrary, I am the one who does not care too much about fashion and tired of shopping. She always comments on my look and tries to change everything that I pick. Besides that, she loves dessert. She would search for the newest dessert cafe or any restaurant that has nice desserts. She could survive with the dessert without other things. I used to hate very sweet things like chocolate or ice-cream. However, I become addicted to dessert after she took me to those nice cafes. I always ask for desserts after the main dish and finish all of them up. Desserts really can make me feel relaxed, every time I have chocolate or ice-cream, I am in a quite good mood; however, I have gained a lot of weight because of the desserts. I had better go with my cousin every time she goes to work out.

Anyhow, my cousin is a really cool person. She works really hard and plays really hard as well. She has influenced me in many ways. I like her lifestyle and hopefully I could become as successful as she is.

#47 anything

It is Sunday again which means we have school tomorrow. Weekend is always going by fast. When I woke up this morning, I felt like 8 o’clock in the morning because it is really dark outside. The truth is it was about 11 o’clock in the morning and it has been raining for a quite long time. Oh, no! It is raining again and cold again. I thought winter is gone and I am so ready for spring and warm weather to come. “It is Ohio! It is normal!” My friend told me that the weather in Ohio is always like this. After a few days of warm weather and sunny days, it goes back to winter time again.

There is one thing that is strange about me is that I will react completely different according to the weather. For example, yesterday was quite sunny and nice outside, so I was in a very good mood and got a lot of things done. However, I am just too lazy to do anything today because of the weather. I do not feel like going outside, I started watching movies on the Internet and playing video games. It is just a lazy day for me. Some friends of mine will react the same as I do. I think there must be something to do with the human being’s brain work and psychology. The weather is a very influential factor of human being’s mood. Some people may not affected too much by it; however, people like me who does not have a strong will may be greatly affected.

#46 anything

Almost everybody around me will think that “Asians are smart.” I have heard this for a quite long time and I have to say that it is not true!

Take me as an example; I had physics and math class this quarter. I screwed up on my physics mid-term as always. The average score is even higher than mine. I was kind of pissed off; however, I do not think myself as a smart cookie. I think the reason why Americans think Asians are smart are Asian people always regard their school stuff very seriously. We have tons of homework to do and all the teachers work hard to push us to a higher grade. If all the American school have the same teaching system as we do, I bet all the Americans will be smart as well. In China, school system varies in different cities even though overall it is hard. Some of the cities have a more relaxed learning environment like my hometown. I used to be in a girl’s high school and they have the least strict rules and we have a lot of clubs and sports to join after school. I usually think my school as very strict until I came to America; I found all the other Chinese students have a much strict high school life. However, all their hard work paid off, they did great on all of their quizzes and midterms comparing to me. Now I understand why others think Asians are smart. As a matter of fact, they did not see all the hard work Asian kids have done in their schools.

#45 anything

So TGIF!! Finally weekend is coming. I am so glad that I could sleep in a little bit and not to rush to do the homework even though I have a midterm going on next week. Tonight my other Chinese friends and I went to go have dinner in a Chinese restaurant. It is very nice outside today with the big sunshine, so we decided to go out for dinner. We really had fun tonight and we love the food there. Being in another country, it is always nice to get some food from your native country. The food will remind me of China and homemade food. I wish I could go back to China this spring break; however, it is only seven-day break, which means I would spend half of my holiday at the airport. I am already counting down the days to go back to China. I never thought I will miss home that much. Maybe because of the freezing weather in Columbus and hard classes that I took this quarter, I felt very depressed and stressful, instead I just want to go back to China and relax. So I am only going to take three classes next quarter, hopefully, when the spring comes, I would have a good mood to study. Winter just sucks. It is hard to imagine I have to spend three more winters in Ohio. Anyhow, it is really nice outside today and I am in a quite mood with all the sunshine. Plus, I had a good time in the Chinese restaurant with my friends. Spring, please come soon!

#44 anything

So finally, we get to blog anything that we want! It is a nice day outside, I see lot of people wearing shorts and flip flops; however, I am just always cold and I still had a lot of clothes on, which is quite odd. Anyhow, I just cannot wait to finish this quarter. I took four classes this quarter and they all seem very hard to me. I had tons of homework and many mid-terms. I just always feel depressed this quarter because of the pressure about the courses and the cold weather. I am going to take three classes next quarter and hopefully I will have an easy quarter and have time to enjoy the spring. I like the quarter system better than semester because it is always going fast. You will not going to stick to some class that you really do not like, plus you just need to take three or four classes, which is much easier than taking 7 classes for a semester. Sadly, OSU is going to have semester system in two years and everything probably is going to be tough for me. I just hope that I could pass all my classes.

The university is much harder than I expected. I thought everything is going to be easy and does not require a lot of time and energy. It shows that I was wrong. I need to work hard to get a good grade and you deserve what you get. I better go study right now since I have midterms and finals coming up soon and I have not done really well in my last midterms. 

#43 revise CP

I think it is very useful to get all of the classmates' feedback on both title and opening sentence. It helps a lot to decide what I should write for my introduction part as people pick the interesting first sentences. However, I think I need to get a new title since the feedback is about 5 to 6 out of 10. Finding an interesting and unique title is really hard and it takes time too.

Anyhow, here is my introduction: 

Strolling around the fashion area of Apkujong in South Korea, you will find a relatively high concentration of good-looking people with big and deep eyes, straight nose and full sensual lip. There is even an entire street named as “plastic surgery Street”. Have you ever been dissatisfied with your appearance, or at least some parts of your face or figure? Have you ever dreamed of changing the way you look and becoming glamorous? Statistic shows that up to 80% of women and 90% of girls are dissatisfied with their bodies; 92% of girls want to change at least one aspect of their appearance. Nowadays, more and more women are willing to risk injury in pursuit of a perfect look, including going under the knife. 

I hope that I could end up with an interesting topic. The titles I am thinking right now are “the price of beauty” or “under the knife”. I am not sure which one to choose as the title. I think either one is related what I am going to write later in the article.

#42 relevant

I think my article is going to be relevant to the readers. Cosmetic surgery is becoming more popular and maybe some of the readers have had it before or they have seen their friends did it before. Since almost everyone would relate this topic to themselves to some extent, my topic will sound relevant. What I will mainly discuss is how nowadays, more girls and women are willing to go under knives to make them more charming and glamorous. Considering almost everyone would like to make themselves look charming, they would be interested in reading the article. I will talk about different kinds of the plastic surgeries and how many people have used it as a away to make them pretty. Besides that, I will talk about the disadvantages of it as well. There are lot of news about side effects of plastic surgery and how people suffer from it or even died. I would like readers to be aware of the plastic surgery before they decided to do it; I probably will give the readers some advice on all kinds of surgeries. Hopefully, everyone who read my article could learn more facts about plastic surgeries besides its amazing effect.

I have not worked on my paper yet; however, I think it is a good start to decide what I am going to write about and what my structure is. I will try to make my article more relevant to readers and hopefully, they will get interested in reading the article and learn something at the same time as well. 

#41 compelling

I hope that my topic will turn out to be compelling. Because the topic I am choosing is quite interesting. Nowadays, especially women would be interested in this topic. What I am going to write is a something happened related to my real life about cosmetic surgery. I will then talk about how cosmetic surgery is so popular among the teenagers. I will mainly focus on two kinds of surgeries, one is small types of surgeries such as nose life, open double-lid eye, etc, the other one is considered as big surgeries such as height increasing surgery, serotoxin injection, etc. Most teenagers have heard these technical terms, and some of them would choose to use it as a way to improve their look. I will also talk about some news about the effects about plastic surgeries. There are news about how many celebrities died because of the surgeries, how many people have got more even worse than before because they have done too many plastic surgeries. Besides that, I will probably use some research about how many people have done surgeries, which country has the most plastic surgery institutions, how many people would sacrifice anything to look beautiful, etc. These statistics would sound quite interesting and gives readers an idea what plastic surgery is, how popular it is, what are the advantages and disadvantages of them. This is a quite interesting topic and hopefully, my paper will combine all the things I have said and it would sound interesting and compelling. 

#40 timely

My topic is about plastic surgery. I think I could make my article timely because plastic surgery is always a hot topic among young people and celebrities. With the development of cosmetic equipment, making self look pretty is not as hard as it used to be, which makes the plastic surgery popular.

What I am going to talk about is how there are some small plastic surgeries such as open double-lid eye and nose life. A lot of young women have done one of these to make them look more attractive and confident. I am not against to those who did the surgery and I think these small surgeries are fine if people are not getting obsessed with it. I will also talk about how there are some big surgeries which involves considerable dangers. Hollywood stars, celebrities have done them because of their status. There are lots of news about how people get so used to the surgeries and they spend large amount of money on it; however, their face or body only got worse eventually.

After several bad news about cosmetic surgeries, it draws people’s attention and it becomes a hot topic. When talks about it, women would go crazy about it and some of them would do it regardless of the pain; men would do it to make themselves taller and stronger. It will be a timely topic because everybody has heard of this and everybody would hold different idea. It is a quite interesting topic and is worth discussing it.

#39 hypothetical scenario

So today we are supposed to write about a hypothetical scenario.

Let’s say that a woman used to have a happy life with a loving husband. Not long after their marriage, she started getting depressed about her looking and her figure. She wanted to become as pretty as the celebrities out there and she would like to change almost everything on her face.  Hearing the magical effect of plastic surgeries, she decided to do it. After doing the plastic surgery, she got divorced and married to a very rich man who fell in love with her good looking and figure. Tasting the sweetness of the surgeries, she started doing something big on her body as well. In order to make herself look glamorous, she spent tons of money on the equipments and drugs she took. However, considering the fact that there are lots of harmful substance inside the drugs and injection, her face looked awful and everything put in her body misplaced. As a result, she has spent all her money and still did not benefit anything from it. She looked much worse than what she used to look. She lost her loving husband and married to a man who only cared about her appearance. Eventually, her second marriage ended because of the bad plastic surgery.

This seems a little bit unrealistic. But these are all what plastic surgery could possibly affect people. People would be attracted by the significant change on their face and desire to change everything they look to make themselves look perfect. 

#38 anecdote

So today we are supposed to write about a personal anecdote about our commonplace articles.

The topic of my commonplace article is about plastic surgery. I have some friends who have done plastic surgeries before. For example, a friend of my mom’s has done plastic surgeries for several times on her face. She did the face life, opened double-fold eyelid and raised her nose. She looks very pretty and young comparing to other women in her age. She got married to a very good-looking rich man because of her prettiness. They had a very sweet life until their child was born.  The man was mad at her wife because the kid does not look like them at all. The kid has dark skin, small eyes, and flat nose, which does not look like either of them. Eventually, the wife told her husband the truth that she has done several plastic surgeries and that explains why the child does not look like them at all. This story seems very dramatic; however, it is a fairly true story happened around me. What I want to show the readers is how plastic surgery has some side effects. As plastic surgery could make people look pretty, a lot of women decide to do it regardless the pain and side effects. They may look glamorous in the short term, but there may appear a lot of issues like what the wife had in the long term. So always think twice before deciding to get your face fixed!

#37 anything

Finally, we get to blog anything we want. I just want to say that as an international student come from Shanghai, which is warmer than Columbus, I am so not used to the coldness here. It has been freezing outside in the last couple days and I am dressing like a heavy bear to keep warm while walking outside. I am getting really tired of the weather. I do not know other people, but I will get quite depressed when the weather is getting cold and rainy. Knowing the fact that I will probably get depressed during the winter and do not have any motivation to study, I registered all the easy classes for this quarter, except English 110. During the winter time, the leaves have fallen off, everywhere is covered with snow, which makes me kind sad. My friend got excited when it snowed for the first time last quarter because she is also from Shanghai and we do not get snow during winter time. A lot of people think snow is pretty, including my friend. I have to admit that watching snow falling down through the window is quite pretty; however, I will never want to get out if it snowed. The good news is it is going to warm up in the next few days and I am so excited for spring to come! I cannot wait to put my heavy clothes away and see the trees turn green again. This quarter is almost over, which means spring is coming up. Thank god! Hopefully, the weather will keep warming up!

#36 CP Topic

The topic of my common place is Plastic Surgery. South Korea, capital, Seoul, has a reputation as the place to go for a nip or a tuck. But despite being an unregulated industry, thousands seem willing to risk injury in pursuit of a perfect body and look. According to poll in South Korea, nearly 90 percent of Korean women would have plastic surgery to feel better about themselves. None said personality rather than looks is what matters. There is even a popular road known as “plastic surgery Street.”   Plastic surgery is becoming quite popular or even essential among the celebrities all over the world as well. They would want to change the way they look and try to become more glamorous, young and sexy. It is undeniable that plastic surgery has made some people become confident, pretty and famous. However, disadvantages way outweigh the good sides. There are news about people who died due to the cosmetic surgery. Some people would get addicted to the surgery and keep doing it until their faces become too horrible to look at. Bad plastic surgery could not be fixed, which means people need to do more research before actually undergoing the surgery.

Plastic surgery is a common thing nowadays. Some of my friends have more or less done something like opening double-fold eyelid, nose lift, breast implants, etc.  There is nothing wrong trying to have a “best face”; however, when faced with something that is quite risky like plastic surgery, it is always a good idea to do some research and try not to become addicted to it. 

#35 CP 2

The article that I read is everyone is buying it. It basically talks about how college students like to buy things they do not even need. They would buy a lot of designer shoes, purses, clothes, etc just to show off. We are getting really materialism. I completely agree with what the author said because I would have the same thoughts and maybe the same actions as the girls she referred in the article.

This article is very timely because it is a common phenomenon. We always get things that we want from our parents when we are young, which develops the bad habit. Peer pressure is often seen among the same age group, especially for college students, they are always comparing to each other. Girls would buy lots of luxurious like bags and dresses while boys buy watches, etc. What’s more, the company has done a lot of work to do advertisements to attract young people. As the article said, the company would use a lot of idols, celebrities to make us buy things. Considering different aspects, it is really easy for people, especially college students to buy something that we really do not need. After reading her article, I started thinking about my shopping habit. I would want to buy something so bad just because I saw someone else bought it or I saw my favorite idol is doing the commercial. Sometimes, after I bought the item, I will never use it again and it will be forgotten forever. Always think twice before I decided to buy something. 

#34 CP article

Today I have read an article called Think pink? Or think profit? The first thing that this article grabs my attention is its title. When I read the title, I do not know what she is going to write about but I feel like I want to read more of the article. As I kept reading, I think she has written her introduction quite interesting. I could imagine same thing happens to me as well. What she said was how some companies try to increase profits by claiming to support some charities. Her argument is that “If you’re going to the store with the intentions of helping a charity by buying a pink ribbon product, don’t waste your time or money.” This article is quite compelling and timely. As a reader, I had same experience as her for several times when I go shopping. The way how company increases their profits is true and need others to pay attention to. She has brought some examples about how other companies deal with the donation money and list several data. From these examples and research data, I think her argument is quite convincing and I would want to agree with her and try to pay attention to these things when I go shopping. I like the way she has drawn my attention by writing a quite interesting title and introduction. It is hard not to make your title too boring. Also, an effective and interesting introduction could draw lots of readers’ attention, like mine. 

#33 my paper

Today is the last day to blog about my research paper and I finally finished it! I still could not believe I finished the draft. It is the first time I have finished such a long paper. It feels tired; however, I am so proud of myself to get this work done. As a matter of fact, I am nervous to turn it in because I am not so confident about my paper. I really wish that my topic could work so that I do not need to change to another one, search information and start all over again.

This week is Chinese Spring Festival week and I just do not feel like doing any homework or even going to class, especially during the severe weather condition. My family and friends are all enjoying their 7-day holiday and celebrate New Year. That is why I was not in a mood to write on my paper until the very last minute. Thank god I still finish it in time. As for the quality, I am not sure whether it would sound good to Ms. Chambers or not. Tomorrow I have a mid-term and I still have not started reviewing it. I’d better go now and try to force myself to memorize some equations and formulas for tomorrow. Anyhow, I am glad to get this paper done finally. I have been worried about this paper since the first day of the class. Now at least I have done the first step. With the help of Ms. Chambers and writing center, it is as horrible as I thought.

#32 my paper again

It is weekend already and I finished the most part of my paper. Today is the most productive day so far. I started to write about how Dollhouse has good and bad sides and how the cloning has good and bad sides as well. Before writing this paper, I know a little about the technology—cloning and the only thing that I know about it is the first cloned sheep—Dolly. After writing my research paper, I found a lot of information about cloning, in positive and negative ways. I am surprising to find out what cloning could do for human beings and how advanced the technology is! It is a good opportunity to learn something that I would probably never go to learn on my own. Science fiction is the kind of topic that I showed little interest in. When I found out what we are watching for our English class and what kind of topic we are writing about, I was kind of worried because I seldom read something about sci-fi. As I keep researching the information about cloning and other technologies in general, I feel more comfortable about writing it.

I am happy that the draft is only worth five points because I am very confident about my paper including the topic I am choosing and the grammar problems. After getting feedback about the draft, I would be focus on what I need to improve and hopefully I will revise the paper good enough to make it sound like an informative research paper.

#31 about my paper

It is almost the weekend and I feel like I have not gotten the most part of my paper done, which is quite stressful. When I am reading other’s blogs, I feel like everyone else has been working on it quite well. There are a lot that I would like to say about cloning; however, when I read over what I have written, I started feeling like I have said too many things which are not relevant to Dollhouse. I always have trouble with focusing on what I am writing. I always started with the topic that I would like to talk about and want to write anything that I know about that, even though they are not related to my research paper. It happens this time when I tried to write my research paper. I am writing everything that I know about cloning. Seriously, I need to be really focused on what I am trying to argue and delete what are not connected to the Dollhouse. This would be a tough process and my paper would be cut down 2-3 pages quite possibly.

Has anyone finished the paper already? I have a feeling that I will not get it done until the last minute, which is not a good thing. Right now, I start to admire those writers who write tons of pages on the newspaper, website or books. It is a pretty long process to decide your topic, your thesis statement, find your information, write your outline and start writing.

#30 my paper

Today I have actually started writing my paper. I feel like having us finished our draft first is a great idea because I will not start writing my paper until the last minute, which is going to ruin my grade for sure. For me, the introduction part is fairly difficult. However, as soon as I finished my introduction part, I feel much comfortable about writing the body part. I feel like I have a lot of things to talk about cloning, for instance, the positive sides and the consequences; however, it is kind of challenging to relate the technology used in the Dollhouse and cloning together, I really need to focus on that so that the connection makes sense to the readers and I am hoping that I could do well on this paper and make it convincing enough that I do not need to change my topic to another one. 

Going to the writing center helps me a lot by narrowing down my topic and brainstorming with me about different aspects that I could write about. They would provide me with some good advice about how to build a more convincing introduction and how to introduce to the following paragraphs of my paper. They said that I need to view the technology used in the Dollhouse with another aspect so that it relates to the cloning. They suggested that instead of cloning the organs, I should mention that the Dollhouse cloned people’s skills and personalities. What they did have both good and bad sides, which I could talk about it.

Anyway, I need to move on to work on my paper.

#29 my research paper

Happy Chinese New Year!!

Back to the blog, writing a 7-8 page research paper is quite tough for me. I still remembered writing my 6 page paper for my Eng 108 last quarter. I stayed up for several nights to eventually get that done. However, I think this time I am more prepared thanks to the blog. The research paper I am going to work on is related to the Dollhouse. I am thinking about connecting the technology used in the Dollhouse and cloning together. After blogging about integrating the quotes, some people commented about my blogs saying that there is little connection between cloning and the Dollhouse. I rethink about it and feel like my argument is not strong enough to convince the readers. Does anyone who watched the Dollhouse think of some scenes that could relate these two things together?

The connection that I see is how Dollhouse uses different people’s memories and personalities to create a new one. Cloning works kind of similar, instead of using other’s memories, scientists clone organs or DNA. Cloning and the Dollhouse have both good and bad sides. People have different opinions about it while cloning is a quite controversial topic as well. I would probably focus on how the Dollhouse has satisfied the clients’ fantasy and how they treat the dolls. Meanwhile, I would discuss about the pros and cons about cloning. Hopefully, I could connect these two things together.

If anyone could help me with some ideas or come up with some scenes that could be more convincing. 

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In the article “Pros of cloning”, it explained some bright sides of this new technology. Basically the article is talking about three advantages of cloning. First of all, Experience gained in cloning may add to our understanding of genetics and lead to the creation of animal’s organs which have been genetically altered so that they can be transplanted to humans.  Second, cloning could produce a reservoir of "spare parts". Third, cloning could treat damage for brain or nervous system. The quote I would quote is “This (cloning) would supply limitless number of organs so that people would not die while on the waiting list for the few available human organs” (Jeddy, 1). What he is saying is that scientists could clone an organ or any part of a human being and save it for later use. This is sort of similar to the Dollhouse. What the Dollhouse does is to clone other people’s personalities, skills and memories, after that, the programmer—Topher restored them and every time the dolls are assigned a mission, he would use those copies or combine them to create a new one. In the first episode of Dollhouse, Echo was programmed into a good negotiator and Sierra became a fighter. Both of them got cloned some skills and completed the mission perfectly. What cloning could help people is its possibility to save people’s life in time. Imagine when a patient needs an organ to be translated right away and there is not any that could match up. This would not be a problem if cloning could be used.